A rare green 'Jun' bowl and cover, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234)
Lot 1370. A rare green 'Jun' bowl and cover, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234). Diameter 4 3/4 in., 12.2 cm. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000. Sold: $6,250. © Sotheby's
covered overall with an olive-green glaze stopping short of the foot, the clay body of the rim and at the base of the interior left exposed, the dish-shaped cover similarly glazed, Japanese wood box (3).
Property from the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg.
Note: Compare a similar green 'Jun' bowl and cover from the Falk Collection sold at Christie's New York, 16th October 2001, lot 71; and another, with a crackled glaze, from the collection of Frederick Knight sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May 1982, lot 18.
Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017